Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Advisor to the appearance of Mohammed Saleh, Monday that Iraq will pay $ 10 billion of its debt in 2022, noting that Iraq got a good credit rating.

“Iraq will pay its debts, which will not be less than 10 billion dollars in 2022,” Saleh said in the program “Sahour Iraqi” broadcast by Alsumaria channel.

He added that “the government to hedge from now to pay these large debts through the establishment of a fund to compensate the debt by putting funds in it annually,” stressing that “Iraq is able to pay these debts, especially after Iraq obtained a good credit rating, and experience proved That Iraq has not been late to pay the debts incurred previously.”

Iraq has received foreign debts from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, in addition to internal debt by offering private equity bonds to finance his public budget, which was heavily affected by the decline in international oil prices, which Iraq depends mainly on its public budget.